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AMONG THOSE killed recently in the relentlessly rising murder toll were the five young men executed in the tough and gritty, poor Salt Spring community in Montego Bay, St James. Cornel Brown, 20; Elton Hines, […] […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to open an office in Jamaica in what the Washington-based lending agency says is a move that will “further deepen the IMF’s relationship with the country’s authorities and other […] […]

FACED with a lack of resources to secure higher education and limited employment options, several of Jamaica’s young people have turned their attention to Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU), an organisation that seeks to help them […] […]

The UN is investigating reports of a massacre by Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A senior UN official says as many as 100 people were killed in the alleged attack, which is […] […]

Snooker world number one John Higgins has reportedly agreed to take a £261,000 bribe to lose frames in four separate matches later this year. The News of the World alleges it has video images of […] […]

Is there anybody out there? Stephen Hawking joked with and teased a receptive audience at the Royal Society last night about the dangers of aliens. Introducing a screening of his new TV documentary about the […] […]

Boxing legend Frank Bruno told how being sectioned was “one of the best things that could’ve happened to me”. The former world heavyweight champion, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2003, told ITV1’s This […] […]

Customers and staff were forced to flee two retail park stores after fire swept through the buildings. The blaze broke out in a Homebase store on the site at Aylesford, Kent, and then spread to […] […]

A dozen protesters were arrested as trouble flared during a controversial demonstration by anti-Islam campaigners. Several “disorders” were dealt with by riot officers as more than 800 English Defence League supporters gathered in Aylesbury, Thames […] […]

This is the flatline of my ECG showing where I officially died, my vital signs zeroed completely,” Stuart Semple tells me, pointing to a green line that bisects his new painting, Nut Job. A contemporary […] […]